Shades of Gray & Names with HEX, RGB Color Codes

This page lists 50 light tints and dark shades of gray, including HEX and RGB color names and codes. Gray is the color that sits between black and white. Gray is very versatile, and it can be used for many different purposes, and it combines well with a lot of different colors.

Gray is the color mostly connected to the associations of neutrality, maturity, detachment, wisdom and conservatism.

Some of the most common and popular shades of grey include, shadow, ash, charcoal, graphite and slate.

50 Shades of Gray – Names & Color Codes

Ash is a medium to light shade of gray. HTML ash gray is a light pale gray. The name Ash has been used in connection with a color for around 700 years. It’s also a common hair dye color.

Shadow is a medium to dark version of gray. It comprises of the three primary colors in almost even amounts.

Charcoal is a dark shade of gray, with a very slight bluish undertone. You will find different variations of charcoal, depending on what website you visit. Some versions have a much more distinct blue tone.

Graphite as a color varies depending on where you look. It ranges from a very dark gray shade, to a medium tone with a slight blue appearance to it.

Slate is a medium strength shade of gray with a fairly noticeable inclusion of blue. It represents the average color of the slate material.

Iron is a dark shade of gray which represents a common color of the metal iron. You will also find lighter tints, and darker shades of iron.

Coin is a light tint, resembling the color of an ancient Roman coin. It could also be classed as silver. 

Pebbles come in a range of different shades of gray. However, this particular one is dark gray.

Lead is a medium to dark shade with a slight hint of blue visible.

Rhino is a light tint of gray, which resembles the color of the white rhino.

Fossil is a light variation, and it has a few different versions.

Anchor is a dark gray shade with a slight bluish tone to it.

Smoke gray is a medium shade with a slight bluish appearance.

Fog is a medium gray shade. It has a warmth to it, it resembles a color similar to taupe.

Steel is a light gray. It resembles a common color of steel metal.

Lava gray is a medium to light tint of gray.

Porpoise is a medium gray. It represents the common color of the porpoise, which is a dolphin-like marine mammal.

Mink is a warmer light gray. It resembles the fur color of the small mammal, the Mink.

Seal gray is a medium to light shade. It’s based on the common color of the marine mammal of the same name.

Pewter is a light gray tint. It’s a metal made mostly of tin. It was known to be used by the ancient Romans for utensils.

Wolf gray has a few different variations. However, this one is a relatively dark shade of gray.

Battleship is a light gray, named after the average color of battleships.

The shade represents the average color of the dolphin, a marine mammal. It could be described as a medium gray shade.

Thunder is a medium shade of gray, and it’s an often used car color paint.

Onyx is one of the darkest shades of gray. It’s the color of the onyx stone. Onyx gray is also sometimes used to describe the shade of dark concrete.

Vampire is a dark shade of gray. It’s used to describe the black and gray colors of Halloween.

Sonic is a medium light tint. It’s a color semi-popular with car paint.

Jet is a strong and dark gray.

Cloud is a light gray tint. It resembles the color of gray, rainy clouds.

Dim is a dark shade of gray, and it has equal amounts of the RGB colors.

Carbon has a medium tone with a very slight green influence.

Gainsboro gray is a light tint, and it comprises of red, green and blue in equal amounts.

Named after the silver metal, it’s basically light metallic gray.

Echo is a medium gray shade with the slightest greenish tinge.  

Cold gray has a slight hint of blue due to its RGB color balance.

Silent film is a lighter tint of gray.

This is the approximate average light medium color of silk gray.

Ultimate gray is a medium shade of gray and it was 2021s pantone color of the year.

Dark silver or silver shade, as it’s sometimes called, is a medium gray shade. It has exactly even amounts of its RGB colors.

This is one of the lighter tints of gray which represents the color of light mist.

Bright gray sounds a bit like a contradiction in terms. However, here we are. As a color, it’s a light tint of gray with slightly higher amounts of blue in its RGB mix.

Dove gray is a medium shade.

Ice is a light gray with a higher value of blue.

French gray has a very slight yellowish, therefore warmish tone to it.

This dark shade of gray was named after Henry Davy. The name Davy, being linked to the color, was approximately first used around the year 1940.

This light gray has equal amounts of its red and green RGB color values, giving it a slightly yellow undertone.

Gunmetal represents the color of various metals. It’s considered a shade of gray with a bluish tinge.

Stone gray is a medium shade. The color was used on Indian currency, particularly the 500 rupee note.